Archive for June, 2007

Reiki is a Japanese form of healing that is becoming more popular in the today’s world.

Most of the medical practitioners are recommending reiki healing as a parallel system of treatment.

Reiki healing is derived from two Japanese words. One is “rei” means “free passage” and the other is “ki” means “vital life force energy” or “universal life energy”.

Reiki healing is defined as a process which contributes to a sense of wholeness and inner peace. It is a method for stress reduction and relaxation and also promotes healing. It is governed by “lying on hands”. Reiki healing is referred to as a holistic, natural, hands-on energy healing system which treats whole person including body, mind and spirit.

Working of reiki healing:

The treatment is started by the healer rubbing their hands together and then places the hands on your body or just above the body but only within the energy field. Reiki healing energy knows everything that is where to go and how to heal. It is based on a lot on trusting the universal energy of life and health and allows healing to take place.

You may already have heard friends talking about massage therapy and how wonderful it is.

With fast moving life and the continuous chase to meet deadlines, your tired mind and body be likely to seek for stress relief.

Massaging can help you to get relaxed and unwind.

Massage therapy is one of the most important techniques of complementary and alternative medicine.

You can find different types of massage therapy and each of them can deal with their own philosophy and practice.

Most of the massage therapies can show positive effects on your body. They can help in mood control, relief of stress, pain control, and relaxation. In most of the massage therapies, the unknown factor is some form of “life force” which the therapy frees from blockage.

Massage therapy can be used by early physicians to treat fatigue, chronic illnesses, and injuries and contribute to a higher sense of well-being. It can be done by hand or with an instrument to aid circulation, to stimulate nerves, to relax muscles, or even to move the joints.

Here is a list of different types of massage therapy along with some important or unique features of each.

Male impotence is also called as erectile dysfunction.

Male impotence affects ten million men in the United States alone.

Treatments for this dysfunction are extensively available.

Among those the most effective treatment is herbal medicine.

There are many factors affecting the cause of male impotence.

Most of them are physical and some of them are psychological. These causes include:

• Hypertension
• Heavy smoking
• Kidney and liver failure
• Hormone abnormalities
• Diseases affecting the erectile tissues of the penis
• Diabetes
• Excessive drainage of blood from the penis
• Deficient blood flow to the penis
• Side effects of drugs, especially sedative, tranquilizer, ulcer and high blood pressure medications
• High cholesterol levels
• Stroke and neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis
• Adequate alcohol and drug abuse
• Damage to the nerves around the penis
• Oats, and probably damiana and valerian, help counter depression, which can be a cause of impotence

To deal with male erectile dysfunction, there exist literally hundreds of possible cures in alternative and folk medicine. Among those, herbal medicine is the most effective cure.

Searching for a complete medical system?

Chinese medicine is a complete medical system that is used to diagnose, treat, and prevent your illness.

Chinese medicine is commonly referred to as TCM.

It is a system of healing rooted in the beliefs and traditions of oriental medicine.

In Chinese medicine, your body is viewed as a delicate complex of systems that must all be kept in balance for your body to remain healthy.

Chinese medicine uses a wide variety of techniques to maintain the balance. The techniques it uses are meditation, acupuncture, massage, mental and physical discipline such as Tai Chi and yoga, herbal medicine and nutritional therapy.

Chinese medicine is also regarded as an integral part of conventional medicine. Similar to naturopathy, Chinese medicine is a holistic philosophy. It takes all of your body’s systems into account, including mental, physical, emotional, nutritional, and social aspects of your life.

Chinese medicine is mainly based on the balance of opposing elements in the body, and their synchronization both within your body and the environment around it. Yin and yang are the two main forces which combine to form the Qi or vital life force.

You may already know that meditation is good for your health.

Because of the misconceptions of meditation many people not even attempting to meditate.

You can find different types of meditation techniques but the main misconception is one that can now be cleared up once and for all.

There is no need to clear all of your minds. For learners and beginners there are numerous CDs and tapes available which will help you to switch off from the every day thoughts and pressures and it takes your mind into a completely different world of relaxation.

There is word called ‘journey’ which is used frequently in connection with meditation. This means paying attention to someone who directs your thoughts to think of different things other than from day to day thoughts.

Most of you think that you can not divert your mind from worries, and other issues. Your imagination fills your mind in such a way that you can imagine yourself there and experience the feelings of the sun shining on your face. You can practically feel a breeze blowing through the trees. If you practice this a few times, it replaces your every day thoughts with more peaceful ones.

Most of the things in your life are simple to say but are not easy.

Among those, meditation is one thing.

Though, it sounds simple but meditation for beginners is not that much easy to practice.

Breathe meditation is the foundation and a starting point for progressing to finer and deeper meditation techniques and is the base of meditation for beginners.

Most of you think that how hard it can be to just sit in a single position for a long time.

For some days meditation for beginners is a very difficult task and is completely contrast to how you normally conduct your daily lives.

Symptoms of meditation for beginners:

• You will notice some symptoms like leg pain and your lower back will screaming.
• In the initial days it will be hard for you to focus your attention on one thing.

Benefits of meditation for beginners:

• Meditation for beginners is very beneficial, it makes you calm, more relaxed and relieves tension.
• It also helps in discovering inner levels of yourself whenever you reached to more advanced stage of meditation.
• Meditation for beginners help in knowing what is going on inside of you. Improves awareness and ability to focus.

You may all familiar with the art of yoga.

There are many different forms of yoga that you can practice.

Karma yoga is a type of yoga that brings the physical and spiritual worlds together.

If you properly practice the karma yoga you can experience both.

Kama means “to do”.

Karma yoga combines the two main philosophies of the world.

This means that it combines the theory of western philosophy, that life should be lived with pleasure with the eastern philosophy that life should lived for knowledge. Through karma yoga both of these theories are combined in the act of karma.

If you learn karma yoga it equals with learning knowledge of the world and living in complete and pure happiness. Practice of karma yoga is exclusively depends on the way you live your life.

In order to progress with your karma growth, it only depends on your lifestyle. You will acquire bad karma if you live your life only for wealth and material possessions. If you live your life for pure happiness and love then you have good karma on your side.

Thinking about how to deal your problem without any medication?

Hypnosis is such a process that can deal with problems by appealing directly to the inner consciousness.

Hypnosis is an alternative medicine therapy that is often used as an addition or complement to other more conventional therapies.

Hypnosis can help you enlist the power of the subconscious to treat physical problems and in the treatment of various ailments.

The hypnotist helps you to access your inner resources to achieve realistic goals. You may also practice hypnosis at your home. This involves:

• Relaxation
• Deepening - to move into a relaxed state, count yourself down
• Suggestions - repeat positive statements that relate to your future goals
• Ending - count yourself back to move into a fully alert state

Benefits of hypnosis:

• It helps you to control anxiety, pain and addictions.
• The use of relaxation and post-hypnotic suggestions may help you to overcome cravings that interrupt your diet and attempts to live a healthier lifestyle.
• It helps to control pain and nausea that accompany with chemotherapy and surgery, and control asthma and other involuntary bodily responses.